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FY2011 NFCR Progress Report-34186 National Foundation for Cancer Research 2011 Progress Report NFCR MISSION STATEMENT The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) was founded in 1973 to support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, early diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer. NFCR promotes and facilitates collaboration among scientists to accelerate the pace of discovery from bench to bedside. NFCR is about Research for a Cure – cures for all types of cancer. TABLE OF CONTENTS From The President .................................. 1 Breaking The Code. Winning the War Against Cancer ........ 2 Winning the War Against Cancer. A Revolution in Medicine ... 4 Accelerating Discovery. Research Highlights................ 6 NFCR Clinic For Targeted Cancer Therapies.............. 13 NFCR|NCI International Workshop Tianjin.............. 14 6th Annual Szent-Györgyi Prize for Cancer Research ........ 15 Taking Action Against Cancer ......................... 16 Extraordinary Support ............................... 20 Legacy Society ..................................... 24 2 | NFCR Research For a Cure FROM THE PRESIDENT This is an age of cancer genetics. There is no more exciting time to be part of cancer medicine than now. By integrating molecular-based technologies, systematic tissue procurement and molecular diagnostics and genetic sequencing, the National Foundation for Cancer Research is pioneering the way in deciphering cancer’s genetic code, and translating laboratory discoveries into remarkable new therapies that target the unique genomic and cellular characteristics of each patient’s cancer. The genetic knowledge about cancer’s inner workings is changing everything. It alters how we think about cancer biology, how we develop new anti-cancer drugs, how we test those drugs in clinical trials, how we diagnose and treat an individual’s cancer. Genes are “broken” in cancer cells. Since 1973 the National Foundation for Cancer Research has spent over $288 million to underwrite basic discoveries about the ways broken-down genes lead to cancer. NFCR’s high impact research is paying off, but we also know there is much more we must do. How much more? Cancer affects 11.7 million Americans directly. The disease is responsible for one out of every four deaths in this country. NFCR-funded discoveries are the blueprints for the next generation of cancer treatments. NFCR is Research for a Cure – Cures for all types of cancer. Those discoveries are what you make possible with your support. Thank you and sincerely, Franklin C. Salisbury, Jr. President NFCR Research For a Cure | 1 BREAKING THE CODE WINNING THE WAR AGAINST CANCER The “black box” that was the cancer cell has been opened and, with the support of millions of Americans, NFCR researchers have pioneered the redefinition of cancer as a genetic disease, making possible new approaches to treating cancer and transforming medicine so that real hope for a cure is now within sight. NFCR scientists are at work on new anti-cancer drugs that target the very genes and signaling pathways that make a cell cancerous. These new targeted cancer therapies are proving more effective, longer lasting, and far less toxic than radiation and chemotherapy – treatments with side effects that inspire dread so deep that they are almost as feared as the cancer itself. Today, more individuals diagnosed with cancer are surviving longer than ever before. Even those who ultimately succumb to cancer live longer and experience a much better quality of life than was possible just a few years ago. Every day at NFCR, our researchers report progress in the development of promising new ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer. But until there is a cure, we will not be satisfied – too many lives are at stake. The National Foundation for Cancer Research is an innovative cancer charity, supporting cancer research in a truly collaborative way, reaching global dimensions. Since 1973, NFCR has spent over $288 million to fund “high risk/ high reward” research at universities and research hospitals worldwide. The research funding we provide is having a catalytic effect and accelerating the pace of cancer research. Today in laboratories across the United States, Germany, and China, NFCR scientists are moving cancer research toward that ultimate goal – finding cures for all types of cancer. TARGETING TOP KILLERS TO SAVE LIVES In 2011, an estimated 1,596,670 new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As many as 570,000 people died of cancer in the United States alone. Sadly, that’s nearly 1,500 people a day. One person every minute. Nearly half of all cancer deaths in the United States are caused by four types of cancer: lung, prostate, breast, and colorectal. NFCR supports research on all types of cancer, but we have developed a comprehensive approach to support promising research that targets these four leading killers. NFCR funding helps our scientists push forward in developing new early diagnostic tools, discovering new cancer targets, and bringing more effective anti-cancer treatments to patients. LUNG CANCER RESEARCH Seven NFCR scientists are working on ways is responsible for more than 90% of breast Causing nearly one-third of all cancer deaths to prevent prostate cancer, detect it sooner cancer deaths. with innovative technology, and tackle the in the United States, lung cancer remains the COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH number one killer among all types of cancer. molecular mechanisms that drive its spread Colorectal cancer is the third leading cancer NFCR provides funding to support eight including new targeted approaches and killer of both men and women in America. leading scientists from around the world novel gene therapies for treatment-resistant With NFCR support, six outstanding working to find a cure for lung cancer. Using metastatic prostate cancer.Their critical and scientists are launching attacks on this deadly the most advanced molecular technologies, innovative research will lead to better strategies disease. Their research is refining dietary means NFCR scientists are focused on several critical in prevention, earlier detection, and treatment for its prevention, identifying new biomarkers areas, including: prevention, early diagnosis, of prostate cancer. for early diagnosis, developing novel targeted personalized medicine, and the development of BREAST CANCER RESEARCH cancer therapies, and demonstrating that a simple blood test for real-time monitoring of Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed Traditional Chinese Medicine can alleviate the cancer. Research breakthroughs in these areas cancer and the second leading cause of gastrointestinal side effects of chemotherapy. will bring significant benefits to lung cancer cancer death in women. NFCR supports patients, improving their survival rates and OTHER TYPES OF CANCER breast cancer research in the laboratories of quality of life. 10 leading scientists. These scientists are on NFCR scientists are also working around PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH the frontline of multiple aspects of breast the clock to find more effective treatments for many other types of cancer. Pioneering Nearly 240,900 men were diagnosed with cancer research, including: the development research is being conducted to fight pancreatic, prostate cancer in 2011 in the United of forward-looking molecular imaging ovarian, brain, liver, esophageal, gastric, States, and more than 33,700 died from it. technology that will allow earlier diagnosis, cervical, kidney, head and neck cancer, as well The 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer seeking new strategies to overcome tumor as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, patients has dramatically increased to nearly drug resistance, developing nanocomplex melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma, and many 100%, largely due to recent advances in drug delivery technology, identifying genes others. NFCR scientists are moving cancer cancer research. However, once the cancer that control the early migration of cancer cells research toward our ultimate goal – finding has spread, it can still be fatal because there is into healthy tissue, and establishing more cures for cancer…all types of cancer. no curative treatment available at this time. effective strategies to stop metastasis – which NFCR Research For a Cure | 3 WINNING THE WAR AgAINST CANCER A REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE We are entering a revolutionary period in cancer detection and treatment that is being driven by breakthroughs in genomics and systems biology. The convergence of scientific research and emerging technologies is building an unprecedented understanding of cancer as a genetic disease, driven by abnormal genes and proteins. Twenty-first century medicine is changing how we look at cancer. For decades the disease model was confined to what we could observe in tissues and organs. Scientists are beginning to “see” biological processes in real time at the genetic, molecular and cellular levels. Scientists can now view cancer as a mechanistic disruption of the normal cycle of cell growth and death. By determining which genes and proteins are driving the cancer process in an individual patient, we can define a much more precise target for our treatment interventions. These “biomarkers” will provide earlier alerts to cancer; an advanced technology such as nanotechnology promises to create extremely small-scale devices (one eighty-thousandth the width of a human hair) that will be able to detect changes that signal the presence of cancer and deliver treatment. Each advance, new tool and technique is helping
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